Guest Editors: Lizy Kurian John and Earl Swartzlander (The University of Texas at Austin)

In 1971, Leon Chua presented the theoretical basis for a passive two-terminal circuit device that he called a “memristor” (a contraction of memory and resistor). A memristor is a two-terminal device that behaves like a resistor, with the resistance depending on the history of the current passing through it. In 2008, HP Labs realized memristors in nanoscale titanium dioxide cross-point switches. The initial application has been to use memristors to implement memory on a portion of a traditional CMOS chip. The memory is referred to as RRAM (resistive RAM).

Conventional von Neumann systems fetch data from memory, process it, and store the result back in memory. The recurring fetch-process-store sequence limits computer performance. In many applications, memristor memory can act as a site for storing data, while implementing desired logic computations.

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